"Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another."

"A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side."

"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below."

"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner."

"Fear is stupid. So are regrets."

"The canvas of imagination has no boundaries except those imposed by fear. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency."

"The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then."